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🎗️ Yield for a cause 🎗️
Wanted to take some time to talk about an upcoming mint happening on @blastr_xyz today from @pasteltonesss you can find out more information about her story from her page.
If you're new to Blast and refundable NFTs. Here’s a quick summary on an upcoming charity drop, how yield works, and how you can get involved.
1. 🎗️Minting the NFT: Mint an NFT by depositing funds into a smart contract. The mint price is 0.028.
2. 🎗️Funds Locked in Contract: Your funds are locked, adding to the total value locked (TVL) on Blast.
3. 🎗️Generating Yield: While locked, your funds generate yield.
4. 🎗️Supporting LLS: The yield goes to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, supporting cancer research and patient care.
5. 🎗️Refundability: You can withdraw your initial deposit anytime, making it a safe, refundable investment.
This means you’re investing in the ecosystem and supporting a great cause without risking your initial funds.
What is Blast?
Blast is a Layer 2 blockchain designed native yield.
How to Mint a Refundable NFT
Here’s a quick guide to get you started:
1. Set Up a Wallet: Use MetaMask, Rabby, or another compatible wallet.
2. Bridge eth over to blast: I bridge through @Orbiter_Finance
3. Connect Your Wallet: Visit @blastr_xyz and connect your wallet.
4. Mint Your NFT
- Go to the NFT minting page for the charity project.
- Ensure you have enough BLAST for the mint price (0.028).
- Follow the steps to mint your NFT. Your funds will be locked, and you’ll get your NFT.
- Withdraw your initial deposit anytime if needed.
Blast has huge potential, and I’m excited to see what else we can dream up. Jump in, mint an NFT, and help support a great cause while earning yield.
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Everyone is always rooting for you. Your parents want you to be a great son. Wife wants you to be a great husband. Your boss wants you to be a slam dunk hire. Every first date you’ve ever been on they’ve been rooting for you to get laid. Every time you started to tell a joke people hoped it would have a hilarious punch line. Your proximity to anyone is a reflection of themself, meaning the deck is never stacked against you, and your failures are completely your own
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This post copies word-for-word a May 2026 post by @AdemLuz.
x.com/AdemLuz/status…
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These people are national heroes, and I love them. Anyone making fun of them is evil. They are American heroes who are putting children first. God bless them.
$6.25 billion. 25 million children. $250 each.
Susan and I believe the smartest investment we can make is in children. That’s why we’re so excited to contribute $6.25 billion from our charitable funds to help 25 million children start building a strong financial foundation through Invest America. 💪📈🇺🇸
onedell.com/investamerica/
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ICYMI: $VVV and $PONS are live in our global Spot markets.
@askvenice is a privacy-focused AI platform that offers generative conversation and image creation without retaining any user data.
@ponsdotfamily is a permissionless launchpad built exclusively for Robinhood Chain.
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One of the things I love about @Azuki is that sometimes there are pieces worth more than their price.
It’s not always about immediate return or how much profit one can make. Sometimes a piece will spark something in you, remind you of someone or something special and it becomes a must have. This is that kind of purchase for me.
This piece has been idle in a wallet for over 4 years. The second it was listed I knew I had to have it. So here it is.
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Sam Altman was fired by his own board.
His co-founder Ilya left.
His top researchers left to start Anthropic.
His head of alignment quit.
He dissolved the safety team and its replacement.
He converted a nonprofit into an $850B for-profit.
He removed 'safely' from the mission statement.
His employees begged him to stand with Anthropic.
He said he would.
That night he took the deal they refused.
Then announced it on X like a victory lap.
And you still think this man is building AI for humanity?
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Anthropic responds to Hegseth.
A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
anthropic.com/news/statement…
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Dear @AGPamBondi: You did the one thing your king ordered you not to do: you made Trump look guilty.
You also lied under oath.
And you surveilled the search history of Congress Members.
We are impeaching you when we flip the House. Unless you resign first.
Good evening.
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On November 1, 2024, four days before the Presidential election, Bitcoin hit $69,500.
It is now at $69,200.
We’ve given up the entire Trump pump.
All while US government spending has gone higher and higher, the dollar has tanked, NASDAQ and gold are within reach of all-time highs.
The opposite of what most everyone on CT expected: Trump elected, nearly all risk assets rally, crypto tanks.
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I have a degree in Public Policy & before crypto worked in the government for many years.
Tons of close friends & family still do.
The issue with America is the two-party system. It pits us Americans against each other.
It’s not conversation on ideas, it’s all framed as good VS evil, and the other side is ALWAYS ‘evil.’
Late stage capitalism consolidating wealth at the upper .1% creates hyper fixation on problems that the layman cannot control.
Then it radicalizes them when no changes are made.
With social media, there is an increased amplification on extremist rhetoric (on both sides of the aisle).
Not every issue has to be politicized, but both parties want them to be.
Why?
It drives donations & funding.
It’s never been about policy, it’s been about creating narratives to drive further division in our country in the name of profits consolidating for the rich (that back both sides).
It can change.
But the only way to make that change is accepting not every issue needs to be a political one.
Things can be wrong with America.
The left can be wrong.
The right can be wrong.
But we, as humans, should accept basic rights constitutionally guaranteed to us & embrace that the government doesn’t need our blind support on every issue.
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absolutely bananas that this needs to be said to people are known to legally open/concealed carry, wear “don’t tread on me” shirts, and lament paying federal taxes in general
yet here we are
you won’t understand government overreach until it comes to lock you up next
enjoy the coming national police state, fam. you’ve earned it
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Just saw the news.
I try not to talk politics on this account, but there comes a point where you have to use your voice.
The fact we have Americans, exercising their constitutionally guaranteed rights being executed in broad daylight is disgusting.
A post does nothing.
Calling congress does nothing.
There’s a difference between politics & being a decent human being.
Not every issue is a political issue.
Some come down to human decency.
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The 2nd amendment is not for hunting, it is not for self protection
It is there to ensure that free people can defend themselves if god forbid government became tyrannical and turned against its citizens
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: federalreserve.gov/newsevent…
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Insane take from the head of product at X.
Nikita needs to go.
Rather than supporting growth and users are who are chronically online, he finally admitted he has intentionally nuked our reach and tried to kill our community on this platform.
He's literally incentivizing people to post and create less content.
CT isn't dying from suicide, X is.
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We elected President Trump to shrink the size of the government after Biden’s bloated spending.
In 2025, Trump’s government spent 4.1% more than Biden’s government spent in 2024, despite the DOGE headcount cuts.
Trump’s polling is at 40% and moving downward.
Spending taxpayer money is his best bet at reviving popularity.
In the last month, Trump has said he will increase military spending by $500bn, he has given armed forces $1776 bonuses, and now asked for $200bn to buy mortgages.
I expect a total ballooning of the US deficit in 2026.
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Now that ZKEVMs are at alpha stage (production-quality performance, remaining work is safety) and PeerDAS is live on mainnet, it's time to talk more about what this combination means for Ethereum.
These are not minor improvements; they are shifting Ethereum into being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of decentralized network.
To see why, let's look at the two major types of p2p network so far:
BitTorrent (2000): huge total bandwidth, highly decentralized, no consensus
Bitcoin (2009): highly decentralized, consensus, but low bandwidth - because it’s not “distributed” in the sense of work being split up, it’s *replicated*
Now, Ethereum with PeerDAS (2025) and ZK-EVMs (expect small portions of the network using it in 2026), we get: decentralized, consensus and high bandwidth
The trilemma has been solved - not on paper, but with live running code, of which one half (data availability sampling) is *on mainnet today*, and the other half (ZK-EVMs) is *production-quality on performance today* - safety is what remains.
This was a 10-year journey (see the first commit of my original post on DAS here: github.com/ethereum/research… , and ZK-EVM attempts started in ~2020), but it's finally here.
Over the next ~4 years, expect to see the full extent of this vision roll out:
* In 2026, large non-ZKEVM-dependent gas limit increases due to BALs and ePBS, and we'll see the first opportunities to run a ZKEVM node
* In 2026-28, gas repricings, changes to state structure, exec payload going into blobs, and other adjustments to make higher gas limits safe
* In 2027-30, large further gas limit increases, as ZKEVM becomes the primary way to validate blocks on the network
A third piece of this is distributed block building.
A long-term ideal holy grail is to get to a future where the full block is *never* constituted in one single place. This will not be necessary for a long time, but IMO it is worth striving for us at least have the capability to do that.
Even before that point, we want the meaningful authority in block building to be as distributed as possible. This can be done either in-protocol (eg. maybe we figure out how to expand FOCIL to make it a primary channel for txs), or out-of-protocol with distributed builder marketplaces. This reduces risk of centralized interference with real-time transaction inclusion, AND it creates a better environment for geographical fairness.
Onward.
